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Andrew Housworth Kansas NO TITLE At present I am in a super Max-SHU unit under (O.S.R.) Other Security Risk. I have never reseved any discipline for any of the activity I am being held on. I am held in "Lockdown" for alleged trafficking of contraband but have never been charged, wrote up or accused of said activity. When I inquire I am told it is confidential information that cant be shared. Another words I am not allowed to face my acuser or even know what I am being acused of. How...

Change is difficult Change is difficult. Growth is difficult. Real growth necessitates exploring and challenging my thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, morals, and behaviors. Likewise, it includes taking a critical stance towards my environment. This is my life, everything in it is personal, intimate, and immersed in who I am. I cannot compartmentalize my life to such an exact that nothing touches my core. This is unhealthy, and illogical. I must, however, learn to develop a meaningful ratio...

In the year 2005, I was in the tenth year of a thirty year sentence, mid way through appealing what was, what is and will always be a wrongful conviction, when I experienced one of the most notable, surprising, soul shaking, unexpected things I ever had. A dis—ease in the mind manifested as a disease in the body, and on October llth,200§g, at 5:30 am, I awoke to what felt like a W.W.W.F kick in the chest! "May be a book had fallen off the shelf and landed on me"; That was the immedi...

1/2 Pint Kansas [NO TITLE] One major source of stress in prison is being placed in solitary confinement. I myself was in for at least a year. Solitary confinement is almost gaurnteeded to make you mentally ill if not suicidal due to the extremly noisy and filthy enviroment. I think the filth hurt me the worst due to the fact that I was NEVER given a shower the ENTIRE YEAR I was in solitary. My life has changed for the worst due to the fact that being in solitary cause be to be diagnosed with ...

1/2 Pint Kansas This God-Forsaken Hell hole. Here at the mental health unit in Lansing.corr.Fac. is like living in hell. For starters, the "unit team", will not answer Form-9's, will not allow you to access court when you need help, lie to you about why you are being move a into a multi-man cell, etc. The Guards themselves aren't any better. They don't open your door when you have to go to your mental health group, meals, callouts, etc. The guards scream & yell at...